Movies about Vietnam, like other war epics, regularly rake in the cash or winawards.
So why do people think video games shouldn't be able to discuss the same topics?
Because they are not considered free speech. In my find, this is a clear case of ignorance against a young medium. Comic books went through the same thing when they were young. We just need to wait a few more years until we're middle aged and still playing games, and our kids are too. Then this irrational fear will hopefully diminish, and we can commence hating and fearing whatever our kids our doing by then ("How dare you re-enact your grandfather's battle in that holodeck!").
There's a clear trend of online communites, especially MMORPGs, beginning to mimick regular society more and more closely. I see missionary work in virtual communities as a natural progression of this.
The Slashdot article is here and the Wired article is here .
Since diamonds have a much higher thermal conductivity (ie they can take the heat), they'd make better chips than silicon if only they were more affordable. Industrial diamonds are expected to make the whole industry's prices fall drastically by increasing supply and breaking the De Beers cartel .
Personally I think these are awesome feats of engineering, and a way to give your significant other a stone without feeling morally, and literally, bankrupt.
I, for one, welcome our new MS overlords and remind them that I will faithfully serve as a suppotter of their ideals, and invaluable reference on Linux traitors when their era of true dominance has arrived.
28.8 dial up? You call that the Good ol' days? You little whippersnappers don't know nothin' about the good ol' days.
When I was your age, all we had was seven computers in the whole world, five of them were in Nigeria, and they were connected by old loops of string. Instead of packets, you had to put a color coded ribbon on it and pull the string for 60 hours until the ribbon got to the other guy. Then he had to manually enter the data into his computer via punchcards and smoke signals, and we liked it that way!
We didn't have no fancy 3D engines, or even 2D, all we had was 1 dimensional games, lines with broken spaces in between and you had to pretend the long ones were space cowboys and the short ones were mutant trolls. It took 84 hours of processing time to draw 1 pixel, and we liked it that way!
You spoiled bratts and your instant messaging eDoom 7.0++ with real time anti-aliased bitmaps don't know nuthin about the good ol' days.
Over the past few months, the SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Corporation (formerly Caldera International, Inc. a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value."
In light of this it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear; Samba3 allows Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership attribution.
We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways. SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Because of this, we believe not only that SCO must be prevented from the use of Samba software, but that team Samba must take up arms and engage in formal combat against SCO. We are already busy assembling hand picked teams of elite mercenaries, varying in expertise from explosives and combat strategy to torture methodology. We will be initiating our attacks at an undisclosed time within the next 96 hours, and will accept no terms of surrender except hari kari from every member of SCO, and their extended families/anyone they've breathed on in the last six months.
Strictly bring it,
Jeremy Allison, Marc Kaplan, Andrew Bartlett, Christopher R. Hertel, Jerry Carter, Jean Francois Micouleau, Paul Green, Rafal Szczesniak.
You obviously don't understand the real world. Companies have too much invested in their Windows infrastructure to just switch everything over to Linux on a whim.
I've always bought an artist's CD if I found myself listening to their MP3's for more than a week, and I've been looking forward to the Windows release of iTunes because I want to support the artists I like. But this is so infuriating it makes me prefer to give them nothing and have nothing to do with them.
AIDS fules music piracy:
http://turzio.com/tiki/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=128&mode=mode=thread&order= 0&thold=0
Why does everyone keep voting for these bastards? Since when is the government a seperate entity - it's composed of us, American citizens, me and you. If you don't want them to keep stealing from us, stop voting them in office.
Don't blame me, I vote libertarian.
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Wow... I'm sort of a skeptic but after reading that list I was convinced to download and try Mozilla. I'm viewing this site with it right now, and I must say, I'm very impressed! This is great; many of these features are surprisingly practical. I'll have to spread the word about this... I really underestimated how far along development was. Thanks -
Slashdot Mirror
So why do people think video games shouldn't be able to discuss the same topics?
Because they are not considered free speech. In my find, this is a clear case of ignorance against a young medium. Comic books went through the same thing when they were young. We just need to wait a few more years until we're middle aged and still playing games, and our kids are too. Then this irrational fear will hopefully diminish, and we can commence hating and fearing whatever our kids our doing by then ("How dare you re-enact your grandfather's battle in that holodeck!").
There's a clear trend of online communites, especially MMORPGs, beginning to mimick regular society more and more closely. I see missionary work in virtual communities as a natural progression of this.
Perhaps Slashcode doesn't support deleting a posted story?
Being serious here... I've always wondered why the editors add 'Oops, this is a dupe.' instead of removing a story.
Pretty sad, but not necessarily surprising. if that isn't supported.
Since diamonds have a much higher thermal conductivity (ie they can take the heat), they'd make better chips than silicon if only they were more affordable. Industrial diamonds are expected to make the whole industry's prices fall drastically by increasing supply and breaking the De Beers cartel .
More about the De Beers cartel:
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Everything2 link
Personally I think these are awesome feats of engineering, and a way to give your significant other a stone without feeling morally, and literally, bankrupt.
BTW, I've always been personally suspicious of Lil_Innocent_Bill_02347.
I, for one, welcome our new MS overlords and remind them that I will faithfully serve as a suppotter of their ideals, and invaluable reference on Linux traitors when their era of true dominance has arrived.
Yes, who among us doesn't already keep multiple Slashdot accounts to mod ourselves up as "Insightful" every once in a while?
Err... never mind.
Well I think I deserve it.
28.8 dial up? You call that the Good ol' days? You little whippersnappers don't know nothin' about the good ol' days.
When I was your age, all we had was seven computers in the whole world, five of them were in Nigeria, and they were connected by old loops of string. Instead of packets, you had to put a color coded ribbon on it and pull the string for 60 hours until the ribbon got to the other guy. Then he had to manually enter the data into his computer via punchcards and smoke signals, and we liked it that way!
We didn't have no fancy 3D engines, or even 2D, all we had was 1 dimensional games, lines with broken spaces in between and you had to pretend the long ones were space cowboys and the short ones were mutant trolls. It took 84 hours of processing time to draw 1 pixel, and we liked it that way!
You spoiled bratts and your instant messaging eDoom 7.0++ with real time anti-aliased bitmaps don't know nuthin about the good ol' days.
You can take our lives, but you'll never take... OUR KERNEL!!!!!!
</Thick Scottish accent>
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Over the past few months, the SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Corporation (formerly Caldera International, Inc. a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
:
Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value."
In light of this it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear; Samba3 allows Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership attribution.
We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways. SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Because of this, we believe not only that SCO must be prevented from the use of Samba software, but that team Samba must take up arms and engage in formal combat against SCO. We are already busy assembling hand picked teams of elite mercenaries, varying in expertise from explosives and combat strategy to torture methodology. We will be initiating our attacks at an undisclosed time within the next 96 hours, and will accept no terms of surrender except hari kari from every member of SCO, and their extended families/anyone they've breathed on in the last six months.
Strictly bring it,
Jeremy Allison,
Marc Kaplan,
Andrew Bartlett,
Christopher R. Hertel,
Jerry Carter,
Jean Francois Micouleau,
Paul Green,
Rafal Szczesniak.
Stupid MS and their NETWORK BLACKOUT. Man, Linux users never experience NETWORK BLACKOUT. What is SCO's plan?
1. NETWORK BLACKOUT
2. ????
3. Profit!
In Soviet Russia, the NETWORK BLACKOUT NETWORK BLACKOUTs you!
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You obviously don't understand the real world. Companies have too much invested in their Windows infrastructure to just switch everything over to Linux on a whim.
I've always bought an artist's CD if I found myself listening to their MP3's for more than a week, and I've been looking forward to the Windows release of iTunes because I want to support the artists I like. But this is so infuriating it makes me prefer to give them nothing and have nothing to do with them.
AIDS fules music piracy: http://turzio.com/tiki/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=128&mode=mode=thread&order= 0&thold=0
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How about:
No more Keanu.
3: Jar-Jar Dies
Fight Club 2
Your opinions suck.
Natalie Portman naked.
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Why does everyone keep voting for these bastards? Since when is the government a seperate entity - it's composed of us, American citizens, me and you. If you don't want them to keep stealing from us, stop voting them in office. Don't blame me, I vote libertarian. _______________
Wow... I'm sort of a skeptic but after reading that list I was convinced to download and try Mozilla. I'm viewing this site with it right now, and I must say, I'm very impressed! This is great; many of these features are surprisingly practical. I'll have to spread the word about this... I really underestimated how far along development was. Thanks -